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Sunday, September 18, 2011

No thanks, Mrs. Robins

This email appears to have been sent from a hacked mailbox at Kettering University in Michigan — at least, it was processed by their mail servers. However, it's fraudulent. Don't reply to messages like this, just delete them.

From: Barbara Robins brobins@kettering.edu

Subject: Dear Brethren

Date: September 15, 2011 9:39:39 PM PDT

Although I am not comfortable discussing the content of my mail on the internet owing to lots of unsolicited/Spam mails on the net these days.Anyway my message is that I have made up my mind to WILL my late Husband's funds to you so that you can use it for charity duties and good work to humanity in your country. The amount is 4million Dollars. Please get back to me on my personal and secured email address for further information.My secured email is: brobins2011@live.com

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Co-founder and editorial director of BZ Media, which publishes SD Times, the leading magazine for the software development industry.
Founder of SPTechCon: The SharePoint Technology Conference, AnDevCon: The Android Developer Conference, and Big Data TechCon.
Also president and principal analyst of Camden Associates, an IT consulting and analyst firm.